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              Dr. Haas Known As Developer of Modern College ???7* largest Building Program in History of B.S.T.C. Is About Complete p Circumstances have made the tenure ??? Dr. Francis Buchman Haas, first | president of the Bloomsbfirg State Teachers College, perhaps the greatest to. the entire hundred-year history of the institution. Dr. Haas, principal from 1927' to 1929 and first president of the college after that by act of assembly, was known as an able administrator and a leading educator long before his incumbency of the presidency at the Bloomsburg State Teachers College. Here, however, both he and the college have blossomed forth in the fulness of their service. When the depression entrenched itself throughout the nation in 1931, it had no little effect on affairs at the teachers college. But out of it grew a circumstance that has given the college its greatest lift since Henry Carver appeared on the scene following Civil War days and first transformed the then struggling institution into a full-fledged educational institution, strong in student numbers, and in its strength as an educational factor. To create employment and get money into circulation the General State Authority was created and this state agency in 1937 decided to spend over half a million dollars at the college in new buildings and in revamping those worn by service. Nearing Completion The program of buildings, which sees a new gymnasium, a junior high school building, new storage building and a j new steam plant erected, is nearing completion and visitors for the centen-; nial celebration beginning today will be able to inspect this work. The hand of Dr. Haas has largely 'inspired this, the largest building program in the history of the college, as well as many other plant betterments, including the new Benjamin Franklin Training School building completed several years ago. Dr. Haas, born to Philadelphia.flftyftve years ago two weeks from next Tuesday, June 6, was graduated from Central High School, Philadelphia, in 1904 and matriculated at the School of Pedagogy, there, and later at Temple University, where he received his degree of doctor of philosophy in 1913. Married and father of three children, he served as a teacher in the public schools and Pennsylvania colleges until 1920, with accent on mathematics. That year he became assistant director of the teacher bureau of the state department of public instruction, rising successively to director in 1922 and through commission to deputy superintendent of public instruction in 1925. He served as superintendent of public instruction from 1925 to 1927 and then was named principal of the teachers college at Bloomsburg. Has Many Honors Dr- Haas, a thirty-third degree Mason, received the distinguished ser-; vice .medal of the Pennsylvania State DIRECTING THE COLLEGE CENTENNIAL .Educational Association in 1928 ??? and has been active in various educational pursuits in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey since that time. He is & member of the Rotary Club the Country Club, the Craftsmen dub,??? and of Caldwell Consistory, Bloomsburg: of the Shrine. Wilkes-Barre, and of the Schoolmen???s Club, in Philadelphia.DR, FRANCIS B. HAAS, President of the Bloomsburg State Teachers College, under whose Inspiring leadership the college has risen to new educational heights and who has directed a tremendous building program which climaxes in the centennial celebration. I NOTICED THAT??? 9 * ?? .&/*: /, /?? 4 Returning graduates to the College centennial will And the grounds wearing their brightest garb. The graduates of the fifty-year class I will be coming in for a lot of special attention. That is probably with the thought in mind that the first fiftyl years are always the hardest. Instead of coming by train, as most of them would at the turn of the cantury, the homecomers for the Centennial celebration will be arriving by car. DO YOU REMEMBER? When the old town pump was banned as a gathering place forstudentsfl GOOD MORNING! A week from yesterday and today the ???Old Grads" will be back by the hundreds for the College centennial. HIT OR MISS S SONNET The Callies and the Philos Were men of great renown. The Philos first, the Callies last (You can find it in any historical blast) They fit and fought long years through And prospective members learned how to woo; They were men of Belle???s letters And could quote from Samuel Pepys They knew the Bard, discussed him in the yard. Took their time to rhyme on the greensward, And today they are all back To put each other on the rack??? For the Callies and the Philos Were men of great renown, history ???shows.